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Why are most professors liberal?

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Sikotic™:
Liberals are not as closed minded as conservatives. If professors were conservatives, our ideas would all be very similar.

Trauma-san:
It's undeniable that most professors are liberal, and I have my own ideas why.  You won't agree, but it's the truth, as I see it.

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Liberals typically have the pie in the sky idea that they can save the world, and that they can MAKE A CHANGE! and things like that, they are more worried about the thought behind the process, instead of whether or not the process works.  You see this all through congress, they don't care if a program is WORKING or not, they just care whether or not they're doing SOMETHING, even if it doesn't work.

Anyways, there's a certain pretentiousness in that, and I'm not trying to down them, or say conservatives are more intelligent, or anything, because it's many times the exact opposite. 

The reason many professors are liberal, is because it takes a more liberal mindset to even WANT to teach people. 

On the other hand, a conservative would be more likely to only worry about his family, and have a 'can't save 'em all' attitude, whether you agree with it or not.  That's just the way it works.  Liberals are more 'dreamers', conservatives are more realists who don't take as many chances, in every conceivable definition of the word.

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This also explains why most musicians, artists, actors, etc. are liberal.  Why? ... because a liberal would be more apt to think "Yeah! I can start a rock band and get famous!"

a conservative would say "Man, there's thousands of musicians that don't make it for every one that does; even if I'm BETTER than them, there's more variables involved, and I'd probably just end up broke... the safer bet is to get a good job, and not throw my life and career onto the streets while I try to find work as an actor/musician/whatever my dream is"

There ya have it.  Hate me if you want, call me an idiot if you want, but deep down you know I'm 100% correct. 

7even:
^^ That's also right, but of course not the entire thing in it.

Sikotic™:
That's true, but if it wasn't for that "make a change" frame of mind, we would still be stuck in the middle ages.

Machiavelli:
Liberals are more Intelligent but Conservatives are 'smarter' and have more common sense IMO.

Like Trauma said, Liberals are more concernced about the details and what is gunna be the best way to do something while Conservatives just want to keep it simple and make it done correctly...

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